Love Torn in Dreams
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
Raúl Ruiz
Casts & Crew
Melvil Poupaud
Elsa Zylberstein
Lambert Wilson
Christian Vadim
Diogo Dória
Rogério Samora
Marie-France Pisier
João Bénard da Costa
Paula Pais
José Meireles
André Gomes
Pedro Hestnes
Rui Luís
Francisco Arizia
Rita Durão
Ricardo Aibéo
Francisco Nascimento
Mafalda Vilhena
Cecília Guimarães
Duarte Barrilaro Ruas
Jean-Louis Michel
Marina Albuquerque
David Almeida
José Manuel Mendes
Isabel Branco
Mathieu Demy
Laurent Malet
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